illinialex24
Smash Hero
I've just been thinking, there's an obvious flaw in using Brawl+ in tournaments and it is the following:
A person bringing the Wii in question if he has any skill with Brawl codes could improve almost unnoticeable but substantially his moves and only his moves for a fairly rare character, making him essentially the sole beneficiary. It would be hard to notice because its hard to discover a +1% increase for a certain move and a slightly faster frame data with slightly slower ending times, but it should be fairly easy for anyone to edit that, so we need a way to make sure that we have a fairer competition for all.
Obviously, only a cheating ******* would do this, but considering how Wii's have been stolen and the like, it wouldn't be that difficult for someone to do this.
My thoughts are the following:
We have the tournament host bring all the SD cards with everything needed to run Brawl+ on them. Obviously, you just need a cheap SD card that is fairly small so it wouldn't be that big a deal, and he could reuse them, and he could just increase the venue fee by 1 dollar to easily recover anything he would have lost. If anything weird is discovered, it would play against the host and that would have obvious ramifications, and so it would be much more unlikely for it to happen. People could still bring in their modded Wii's with an official Brawl disc in them and it would prevent any form of cheating by the person who owns the Wii.
Another option is to essentially make it so official builds aren't exactly "open source", where people can compile their own .gct's and so it would be pre-compiled and try to have a code that would verify certain areas of it (if thats possible). Obviously, someone could still find ways around it but hopefully it would be more obvious if he did.
Or, we could have someone with a laptop there who downloads an official build at the venue, and has it put on every SD card so it essentially stops cheating. I'm kinda using the same logic that made it an unofficial SBR rule that modded consoles aren't allowed, because there are too many ways you can make almost unnoticeable changes that are very useful.
What are your thoughts just to make sure if Brawl+ does become widespread that no one tries to use it to their advantage?
A person bringing the Wii in question if he has any skill with Brawl codes could improve almost unnoticeable but substantially his moves and only his moves for a fairly rare character, making him essentially the sole beneficiary. It would be hard to notice because its hard to discover a +1% increase for a certain move and a slightly faster frame data with slightly slower ending times, but it should be fairly easy for anyone to edit that, so we need a way to make sure that we have a fairer competition for all.
Obviously, only a cheating ******* would do this, but considering how Wii's have been stolen and the like, it wouldn't be that difficult for someone to do this.
My thoughts are the following:
We have the tournament host bring all the SD cards with everything needed to run Brawl+ on them. Obviously, you just need a cheap SD card that is fairly small so it wouldn't be that big a deal, and he could reuse them, and he could just increase the venue fee by 1 dollar to easily recover anything he would have lost. If anything weird is discovered, it would play against the host and that would have obvious ramifications, and so it would be much more unlikely for it to happen. People could still bring in their modded Wii's with an official Brawl disc in them and it would prevent any form of cheating by the person who owns the Wii.
Another option is to essentially make it so official builds aren't exactly "open source", where people can compile their own .gct's and so it would be pre-compiled and try to have a code that would verify certain areas of it (if thats possible). Obviously, someone could still find ways around it but hopefully it would be more obvious if he did.
Or, we could have someone with a laptop there who downloads an official build at the venue, and has it put on every SD card so it essentially stops cheating. I'm kinda using the same logic that made it an unofficial SBR rule that modded consoles aren't allowed, because there are too many ways you can make almost unnoticeable changes that are very useful.
What are your thoughts just to make sure if Brawl+ does become widespread that no one tries to use it to their advantage?